Acute aortic intimal tear without a mobile flap mimicking an intramural hematoma

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 285-288

  Beauchesne, Luc M ^a   Veinot, John P ^a   Brais, Maurice P ^a   Burwash, Ian G ^b   Chan, Kwan Leung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA INTIMA; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

EID: 0037355059     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2003.18     Document Type: Article

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